Episode 14 Speech on the Beginning of War

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More than twenty "maids" silently packed their luggage and concentrated in the antechamber. Fourteen Gege stood apologetically and looked at them kindly.

"Take care, Your Highness Princess."

The maids bowed deeply to her neatly.

Fourteen Gege also returned the salute solemnly:

"Take care, too. …… Now that there is a war, you must pay attention to safety when you go outside. ”

Seeing all the maids disappear into the flower path in the front yard, an extreme excitement surged through the fourteen grids.

An empty antechamber, an empty nave, an empty backyard.

She screamed, and circled the empty hall, stretching her wide sleeves and dancing, shouting:

"Little Five! Little Five! Come out, we're free! We are free!! ”

Xiao Wu rushed out from behind, Fourteen Gege hugged her, the two held hands and spun in circles crazily, Fourteen Gege laughed loudly, and Xiao Wu also laughed more than once. She hadn't seen Her Royal Highness so happy in a long time.

"Poof", both of them fell to the floor, and Fourteen Gege was still laughing.

"Okay, from now on," Fourteen Gege sat up, his haughty smile back on his face, "I'm still Fourteen Gege!" ”

Xiao Wu got up, raised his face and asked excitedly:

"Then Her Royal Highness the princess doesn't need to wear Hanfu anymore, right?"

"Hey, why don't you wear it? It's pretty good. ”

"Can we wear kimonos then?"

"Little five, little five," Fourteen Gege tapped her head and smiled, "Identity is not about what you wear, but what you put in your head." Do you understand? ”

Xiao Wu smiled and nodded.

"Go," Fourteen Geg patted her ass, "bring Champagne to Princess Ben!" Let's have a drink! ”

"Hello!"

Xiao Wu happily got up and rushed to the back.

It's a great feeling that no one is watching! Fourteen Gege lay on the floor like a child, his elbows resting on the brocade mat and his chin propped up.

My plan actually succeeded! Luckily, it worked on the first try! Originally, she wanted to use a subtle way to get it a few more times, it seems that Zhu Yourong is really a kind girl. It's just pity for those female agents of Dongchang who were wronged, and I don't know if my future will be affected after I go back.

drove Dongchang out of his home so smoothly, although he was replaced by someone from the People's Guard, but it was just a bodyguard, and the maids were all ordinary. Moreover, at the beginning of the establishment of the People's Guard, it was not as difficult to deal with as Dongchang. Of course, there is another point, which may not be so important: that is, Xiang Xiaoqiang is not as annoying as those female agents of Dongchang. Although this guy is very smart, he is a kind guy, a guy who pities the jade. Well, that is, that guy really isn't too nasty.

There was a cough from behind.

Fourteen Gege turned his head and saw Xiang Xiaoqiang standing at the entrance of the living room in military uniform, taking off his coat, hat and gloves.

"Why, won't Her Highness the Princess invite me to sit?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled, with the same sense of accomplishment on his face as her.

Fourteen Gege got up with a bone, stepped forward with a smile, took his coat with his own hands, and hung it on the hanger.

"Ouch, how does this make this," Xiang Xiaoqiang was flattered, "Her Royal Highness the princess personally...... It's really frustrating......"

Fourteen Gege laughed:

"Hehe, don't come with me, Lord Xiang, I really thank you. …… Oh, you said that Your Majesty will let all the maids be replaced, and this is not enough...... Hehe, now except for Xiao Wu, there is not even a person at hand to call......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang walked slowly to the tea table with her, sat down and said with a smile:

"The new maid will probably be able to transfer it tomorrow, and today I can only grieve His Highness. As for the defense of the Princess's Mansion, I have assigned two mobile platoons, more than fifty people, which are already outside, and are settling in the servants' quarters. Not only are they responsible for security work, but His Highness can also command them if there is any clumsy work in the future. My Highness the People's Guard soldiers can rest assured, loyal and disciplined, and I have also explained that His Highness's identity must not be leaked, and those paparazzi in the province will come to find trouble...... In addition, now that the war is going on, I am afraid that the identity of His Highness will attract a lot of hatred......"

Fourteen Gege made a gesture, lowered his head and said:

"Needless to say, don't talk about this, let's not talk about this...... I'm sure Lord Xiang's guards will protect me. ”

After drinking a few glasses of champagne in the princess's mansion, Xiang Xiaoqiang watched his guards settle down in the dormitory, lectured, and went into the house to say goodbye to Fourteen Gege before leaving.

When he went out, Fourteen Gege helped him put on his coat with his own hands, and handed him a hat and gloves. Xiang Xiaoqiang naturally put on a coat and a hat and gloves. I woke up when I went out and got into the car.

…… Damn, what's going on! How does it feel so natural?

Anyway, Fourteen Grid is now under his control. The guards sent to the princess's mansion must be diligent, and they must not be allowed to become fourteen grid people after a long time. She has exactly what she can do. Originally, a rotation system could have been adopted, but now the number of people in the know must be controlled, and it can only be this group of people. It seems that it is safer to let a few of his henchmen take turns to be the captain of the guard here. Unlike the "maids" in the East Factory, these guards can only monitor the perimeter of the house, and generally cannot enter the interior. Alas, leave the interior space to her.

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On this day, the Qing army did not have any large-scale attacks, only sporadic air battles over the Yangtze River and over Nanjing. Both sides are testing each other's skills and trying to find out the overall level of the other.

The Ming army aircraft were in the south, and they could meet them from south to north, and they could always drill out of the dazzling sunlight, which was relatively cheap. With this move, several Qing planes were shot down. However, in the afternoon, the sun was in the west, and some pilots of the Qing army also learned this trick, and some Ming planes were also shot down. In general, it was the Ming army aircraft that had a slight upper hand. In addition, air battles were mainly fought over Nanjing, and most of the downed Ming pilots were able to receive medical treatment and soon return to the sky, while the downed Qing pilots could never return.

It was almost eight o'clock in the evening, and the People's Guard Headquarters was still brightly lit and busy. But all the windows have been tightly blocked with thick curtains.

Today is the first day of the war, and the headquarters is simply busy. In the commander's office, Xiang Xiaoqiang and Qiu Yun did not go to the restaurant to eat, but asked someone to bring the food over, and the two ate together, answering the phone and signing orders at any time.

"Oh, that's right," Xiang Xiaoqiang patted his head and looked at the wall clock, "It's already eight o'clock, quick, turn on the radio, Your Majesty will speak to the whole country!" ”

Qiu Yu perked up, quickly ran to the wall, turned on the desktop radio, and asked:

"Is that the manuscript you wrote for Your Majesty?"

"Hehe, keep your mouth tight, don't talk around."

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In the Fengtian Temple of the Forbidden City, the radio microphone has been brought in, and the microphone is placed on the dragon case, a circular metal ring, and the microphone is in the middle.

The radio director next to it has already debugged the line and tested the effect. Seeing that the pointer had reached eight o'clock, he put down the magnetic head of the record player next to him. After a burst of solemn and elegant music passed through the door, the director lifted the head.

The announcer stepped forward and said solemnly:

"Below, listeners, is our beloved Majesty, who speaks for us."

Then he bowed deeply to Zhu Yourong and stepped aside. Zhu Yourong smiled at him, stood in front of the microphone, glanced at the manuscript on the table, and said slowly:

"The people of the Ming Dynasty, the officers and men of the army and navy, just today, on January 5, 1936, the Qing captives attacked us......"

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On the streets of Nanjing, pedestrians stopped to listen to the sound coming from the loudspeakers in the heights.

Xinjiekou Square, in front of the Jiangbei Fall Memorial Monument, gathered a large number of people and flowers. People looked up and listened to the sound coming from the loudspeakers around them.

In the homes of Nanjing citizens and in the dormitories of various universities, people were crowded in front of the radios, listening silently.

In the reinforced concrete fortifications of the Yangtze River defense line, the artillerymen wearing steel helmets also listened to the sound of horns overhead. In the communication tunnels connecting the fortifications, the guards also listened to the sounds echoing in the tunnels.

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“…… But as you have seen, the so-called 'offensive' began with an hour-long intensive shelling of the civilians of the city, against the unarmed civilians. In this hour, the northern part of Nanjing became ...... It became hell. All the buildings fell, all the buildings were engulfed in flames. Qingyu specially chose to shell in the early hours of the morning, when people were sleeping soundest. The innocent citizens, who had not even woken up, were buried in the burning rubble along with their homes, their parents, wives and children......

"Today, a steady stream of dead and wounded civilians were carried out. The streets of the eastern and southern parts of Nanjing, now stretched out with tents, filled with wounded people who had escaped from the shelling. I've been visiting these tents this afternoon, and I'm still ...... My heart still hurts. Those severed arms, stumps, blurred flesh...... Some are dying, some are still screaming. But I know that their bodies hurt, and their hearts hurt even more! Even if they are lucky enough to escape from the rubble, they have no home and no relatives. …… According to the preliminary statistics I have just received, in the early hours of this morning, more than 10,000 houses collapsed and more than 5,000 innocent civilians were killed in the northern and western parts of Nanjing......

“…… In the twentieth century, in this era of global civilization, any person of good will in any corner of the world will hear about such inhumane atrocities and ask: Why? Why this tragedy? What do they want to do? Do they still have humanity? …… Good people, they don't know what kind of beast is entrenched on the other side of the Ming Dynasty. …… But we know! Because we have fought this beast for three hundred years, and we know its temperament.

"Since 1616, the slave chief Nurhachi rebelled and massacred the Han people in Liaodong, to the bloody entry of the slave chief Fulin, to the ten days of Yangzhou, the three massacres of Jiading, the massacre of Suzhou, the massacre of Nanchang, the massacre of Ganzhou, the massacre of Jiangyin, the massacre of Kunshan, the massacre of Jiaxing, the massacre of Haining, the massacre of Jinan, the massacre of Jinhua, the massacre of Xiamen, the massacre of Chaozhou, the massacre of Yuanjiang, the massacre of Zhoushan, the massacre of Xiangtan, the massacre of Sichuan, the massacre of Nanxiong, the massacre of Jingxian, the massacre of Datong, the massacre of Fenzhou, the massacre of Taigu, the massacre of Pizhou, the massacre of Zezhou, To the original Ming Dynasty of 51.65 million, only 10.63 million people were slaughtered by them...... We know that massacres, in their eyes, are nothing more than the most ordinary things, like eating and sleeping. The only difference is that knives were used before, but now they use cannons.

"Obviously, this morning's shelling has completely shattered the remaining illusions of some people, and these kind people originally thought that the Qing captives were just putting on a show and intimidating this time. However, based on past experience, every time the Qing captives tried to invade the south, they had to massacre them in large numbers to establish their might. This time, we are going to say, the real war began!

"However, today's Daming is no longer the tired and sick Daming of three hundred years ago! Since the Empress of Changping and the King of Yanping County recovered half of the south of the Yangtze River, we have been preparing all the time. Today, on land, we have the strongest defense line in the world, bordered by lofty mountains to the west and the surging Yangtze River to the east. In the early hours of this morning, for the first time since the construction of the Yangtze River defense line, the blood of the Tartars was drunk. After the frenzied shelling of the Qingqing, we repelled their first attack! Our fortifications are intact and still strong. Our warriors waited for the rest of their lives, looking forward to repaying the blood debt from the Qing captives. Our machine guns are ready to go, waiting to harvest the heads of the captives again.

"In the sky, we have a lot of aviation. We have more than a thousand combat aircraft, and most of them are state-of-the-art cantilever monoplanes. Our pilots have been trained hard and well, and they have all been waiting for this day! Just today, they got their first battle baptism and have grown into warhawks with actual combat experience! After a day of competition, we shot down 36 Qingyu planes and captured 14 pilots, while we ourselves only lost 12 planes, and all 12 parachutist pilots were properly taken care of, and we will soon be able to return to the blue sky!

"At sea, we have the fourth largest fleet in the world in terms of gross tonnage and the second largest in Asia. To this day, we have six battleships, three battlecruisers, four aircraft carriers, ten heavy cruisers, ten light cruisers, and more than a hundred destroyers and submarines. On the other hand, what about the naval power of the savage, ignorant, and inherently fearful people on the other side of the Yangtze River? …… They did not have battleships. …… They did not have battle cruisers. …… They don't have aircraft carriers. Then we have to ask, what do they have? …… All they used to prop up the façade were a pitiful six cruisers and dozens of destroyers!

"Even with such a little possessions, they don't dare to take them out and fight. Our detachment cruised in the northern seas, blocking the captured warships in holes like rats. They didn't dare to come out. Because they know that as soon as they come out, they will be crushed under the naval guns of our Ming Navy.

"Today we won our first win. Our fighters showed themselves very well on land, at sea, in the air. However, the war has only just begun, and more severe tests are yet to come. The Qing Dynasty has occupied most of my Ming Dynasty, and most of my Ming people have become slaves under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, from a general strategic point of view, the Qing captives have a great advantage. They have far more soldiers than we do, and they have far more strategic materials such as iron and coal mines. Their capital is a thousand kilometers from the battle line, and ours is only a thousand meters from the battle line.

"But at sea, we have absolute supremacy. We can land on the long coastline in the north at will, attack inland, and make the Qing prisoners defenseless. Our powerful fleet could bombard Lushun and Weihai, open the gateway to the Bohai Sea, and then land in Tianjin with heroic troops and approach Beijing. Under such circumstances, no matter how many troops the Qing captured were, they would not dare to press all of them on our defensive line. They will divide their forces and guard them everywhere. They must not only guard against our landing force, but also disperse in various places, ready to suppress the people who are dissatisfied with the rule of the Qing captives and who have risen up.

"Is it terrible? If you only look at the numbers, then the army of the Qing is undoubtedly the most powerful in the world. The words 'Thousand Divisions Army', they have been propagating for a long time. But everyone knows that it can only deceive themselves and the people under the control of the press. Once these four words get out of the iron bucket guarded by the Qing Dynasty, once they reach the world of freedom of the press and the openness of the people's wisdom, whether it is in our Ming Dynasty, Japan, Siam, Australia, New Zealand, or the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and the United States on the other side of the ocean...... Any elementary school student in these places will sneer at the 'Thousand Divisions Army' that the Qing Lu talks about himself.

"Why? Because today's Qinglu is already a strong outsider. It is like the Ottoman Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire in those days, it is powerful on the surface, but it has reached the point of deep decay and contradictions on the inside. But it is not reconciled, it will fight for the last time before it completely decays and declines. The tide of history is mighty, those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die. It is now the twentieth century, and civilization and democracy are the trend. The Qing Lu themselves knew that a regime that had been maintained by massacres, fooling people, blockades, and repression would not be able to hold out for long in the face of such a general trend. It must fight to the death, using the craziest and most brutal means to prolong its life.

"Qing Yu knew that to the south of the Yangtze River, there was a civilized, democratic, and rich land. For three hundred years, this land has made it salivate. Now, as long as it can devour this land, devour the people of this land, devour the wealth of this land, and devour the ideas and systems of the advanced civilization of this land, then the life of this beast with human blood on its hands can continue.

"Three hundred years ago, our Ming Dynasty suffered from internal and external troubles, poverty and disease, and fell under the butcher's knife of the barbarians. Shenzhou is sinking, the rivers are red, and this East Asian continent, which was once a splendid civilization, has become a slaughterhouse for the Tatars to vent. Fortunately, thanks to the heroic exploits of the Empress Changping and the King of Yanping, a part of our Chinese civilization has been preserved. But the surviving people north of the Yangtze River are forever in darkness.

"Today, the toughest test is upon us again. Unlike 300 years ago, today's Ming Dynasty is rich and prosperous. We have the largest gold reserves in Asia, and we have world-class shipbuilding, aircraft and automotive industries. We have the densest transportation network in Asia, and we have the highest concentration of technical talent in Asia. We have the richest deposits of non-ferrous metals in the world. We have the strongest line of defense in the world. Most importantly, we have the best people in the world. They are all the most competitive sons and daughters of the Ming Dynasty. They are unyielding, industrious, wise, and persevering. When the Motherland needs it most, they will stand up without hesitation. Internationally, we have friends all over the world. Whether in Europe or in the Americas, everywhere in the world, there are countries and people who support us.

"This war is going on today. This is a war of civilization against barbarism, light against darkness, and democracy against **. The peace-loving and war-hating people of the world will stand with us. People around the world who love humanity and hate carnage will stand with us. This is the battle of the century. The flame of Chinese civilization has lasted for 5,000 years, and we must ensure that it is not extinguished in our hands. If we lose this war, then the entire Jiangnan, the entire Ming Dynasty, and the entire East Asian continent will be completely reduced to darkness, barbarism, and ignorance. We will not see the newspapers, we will not hear the radio, and we will not know what is happening in the world today, except for the lies told to us by the Qing court. We can no longer wear gorgeous Hanfu, we can no longer read bloody poems such as 'How can there be no one in China?', and we can no longer praise the deeds of national heroes such as Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, Shi Kefa, and Zheng Chenggong. …… If that happened in the twentieth century, it would be a tragedy for all of humanity.

"The people of the whole Ming Dynasty! The soldiers of the whole Ming Dynasty! Workers, peasants and students of the whole Daming! Let's do it! If we win this war, we can say to our children and grandchildren in the future that in that glorious war, it was precisely because of my participation that the tragedy of 'no China after Yashan' was not repeated, that the backbone of our Chinese nation was protected from being broken, and that the sacred word 'China' was not tarnished.

"If we win this time, then our generation can hold their heads high with pride for the rest of their lives. We can proudly say that I am worthy of the glorious title of 'Chinese'. I am worthy of being a descendant of Yao Shun.

“…… Well, today is January 5th, the first day of the war. I hope everyone has a good rest and welcomes tomorrow bravely and optimistically. That's all I have to say, everyone work hard. ”

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In the headquarters of the People's Guard, in the commander's office, Qiu Yu's chest trembled with excitement, and he looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang with tears in his eyes. Xiang Xiaoqiang also choked in his throat, and was so infected by his manuscript and Zhu Yourong's speech that he couldn't speak.

The two hugged each other tightly. Qiu Yu's face was full of crimson, and he muttered:

"Xiaoqiang, you are amazing...... I love you so much! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't speak, kissing her on the mouth as an answer.

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In the Fengtian Hall of the Forbidden City, the applause that erupted like a tide almost shattered the main hall. Zhu Yourong threw down the manuscript and collapsed into his chair exhausted.

The announcer suppressed the frenzy in his chest and said into the microphone:

"Listeners, below, our beloved Minister of First Aid, speaking for us."

Shen Rongxuan walked to the microphone with the manuscript.

Zhu Yourong stepped aside, and Zheng Gongyin and Mrs. Li surrounded her with smiles and praised her for her wonderful speech.

Zhu Yourong was tired, but still excited. She smiled slightly:

"This ...... This speech is the most tiring for me...... Write it down and set up a special propaganda agency, above the Ministry of Propaganda and under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family, with full responsibility for propaganda during the war...... Let Xiang Xiaoqiang be responsible. ”

"Xiang Xiaoqiang?" Mrs. Li said, "Isn't he the head of the People's Guard?" ”

Zhu Yourong massaged his cheeks and muttered:

"I don't care...... Let's do it part-time. ”